Creating a garden on the Anglesey coast

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I’m intrigued by the idea of growing more perennial veg. Less sowing, pricking out, thinning. Less work. I’ve written about my adventures with Jerusalem Artichokes – now mercifully eradicated again. I am still trying to keep a Welsh Onion alive for long enough to explore its possibilities. But I have discovered that I love Oca….Read more…

So, that was January then. Wet and windy, and half obliterated by a rather interesting virus in my case. Not a lot of gardening. Or blogging. I have started catching up with all you lovely people, and I had a lovely time getting excited about dahlias the other day. My gardening mojo is definitely stirring….Read more…

I mentioned at the end of my post on Plas Cadnant that I wanted to re-work what I call my Problem Corner in the front garden, paying particular attention to the foliage. It is a mostly shady corner of well drained good quality soil – apart from one area where it is still full of…Read more…

Last year I bought some dahlia tubers from Peter Nyssen and planted them out in the little border that edges our patio. I enjoyed them all summer, and then decided to see if they would survive the winter if given a good mulch. I forgot the mulch. I kept my fingers crossed, because it was…Read more…

This was the first year for a long time that didn’t start with buying way too many seeds for edibles. It was also a year in which I didn’t start February by making too-early sowings of the latest tomatoes and chillies I had decided to try. Fortunately I managed to lift my head above the…Read more…